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   On 2025-07-28, Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
      
   > Secure boot will prevent the system from booting without a boot password,   
   > so without the boot password they won't be able to boot the machine and   
   > try to guess your login password.  It's really just a matter of passwording   
   > the machine as well as the disk and it's not really that useful.   
      
   The point of "secure boot" is to prevent the possessor[1] of the machine   
   from booting software not authorised by the licensor[2]. A boot (bios)   
   password, and full-disc encryption, are orthogonal to "secure boot".   
      
   > Secure boot will in fact prevent bad people with physical access from   
   > making changes to the bios firmware, but that is a relatively small risk.   
      
   Not if they can flash the BIOS some other way (JTAG, hardware swap etc.)   
      
      
   [1] Be that the legal owner of the hardware or a thief.   
      
   [2] aka Microsoft, it seems.   
      
      
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